[Organizers] Re: [External] Re: Electronic admission payments

Thanks for all the informative responses so far. In my query at the top of this thread, I wrote: Another situation where accepting electronic admission payments might interact with staff pay procedures is the case where the organization uses a staff pay formula that depends on door receipts (though perhaps with a guaranteed minimum). In this case, the dance manager must know the door receipts in time to pay the staff. If an electronic payment platform can't report its total receipts for an event on the spot (e.g., because of delays for payments to clear or for periodic reports to be generated), that could be a problem. [See question marked "***" below.] Also, if an organization has, say, an English dance and a contra dance in different cities on the same evening, admission payments to the two events by cash or check won't magically get jumbled up with each other, but electronic payments might unless the platform provides support for separate accounts (preferably without a lot of extra cost). Our local dance managers currently do accept payments of membership dues at dances, and they have to know about keeping those separate from admission payments. If electronic payment platforms don't make that any easier, I'd hope they at least wouldn't make it any harder. I welcome comments from those in the know about how any of the popular electronic payment platforms address (or fail to address) any of the issues above. And of course I welcome additional comments on any other issues relevant to accepting electronic payments at dances. *** Is there anyone here who's involved with--or who knows of--a dance series where starting to accept electronic payments has resulted in a change of procedure such that performers are no longer paid on the date of the event (either because information to compute the correct pay may not be available or because adequate cash may not be available), and where they instead get mailed a check some time later? If so, how has that change been received by musicians and callers (either local or touring)? Is anyone here involved with--or aware of--a dance series that has historically paid performers some time after the date of the event for reasons unrelated to electronic admission payments? Thanks again. --Jim